The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“[On philosophizing] Sometimes you have to talk to find out what you think.” — Dan Kieran Copy Share Image
“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.” — zal Copy Share Image
I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, I can't make every product that can possibly use a high-performance CPU and graphics. Why shouldn't I enable others,… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
“[I]t is to be borne in mind, in regard to the philosophical sciences, that the inferior sciences neither prove their principles nor… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.” — Kevin J Anderson Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I am living so far behind my time that no one can find me. I am living so far beyond my time… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.” —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher” — Frank Viola Copy Share Image
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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